Boot Camp Fail. Genius Bar struggling

I have been trying to install BootCamp onto my 2013 iMac. However, I cannot get past failed partition "Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning the disc." The closest I have come was after the Fusion Drive was replaced, I tried to make a 200GB partition and it got 3/4 the way through. That is the ONLY time partitioning has even remotely worked.


Among thing I have tried

  • Terminal DiskUtil shows all the correct disks and no phantoms.
  • Zapped PRAM
  • Disk Utility from Recovery Mode
  • /sbin/fsck -fy
  • One time, I found the partition mount points and I saw what appeared to be a Windows partition, I did something and it was gone. I literally cannot remember what commands I used to get that view, how I started up or anything.


Genius Bar

  • I have visited the Genius Bar 3 times. Every time, the techs put it through the triage and all systems check out fine. The 1st time ended with the tech believing there was a tech memo on the era Fusion Drive I have. So they had it replaced.
  • Interestingly, I learned that Apple does not make a way to unmount the fusion drive. The triage the techs need to use is an older OS version (including use of the old DU)
  • This last time, the tech decided to kick the problem up a tier.


Suspicions

  • I bet the BCA does not play nicely with Fusion Drive in 10.11.5. I think it is such a niche issue, it is not widely reported.
  • I suspect there is a ghost partition(s) from my many failed partition attempts.


System Details

  • 27 inch Later 2013
  • 3TB Fusion Drive (1.66 TB available)
  • El Cap 10.11.5

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 27, 2016 5:37 PM

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May 28, 2016 9:00 PM in response to K J

K J wrote:


Another WOW! Long list of actions.... Last several....

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The volume DE4ABCF0-5ECA-434F-AF42-611FE118D6C6 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Incorrect size for volume "Anchorhead"

Adjusting volume "Anchorhead"

Growing Logical Volume

Resizing Core Storage Logical Volume structures

Resized Core Storage Logical Volume to 3114866704384 bytes

Growing file system

Updating Windows boot.ini files as required

The partition map appears to be OK

Finished partition map repair on disk0

Glad to see these lines. Can you post the output of diskutil cs list before you run BCA, for the record?

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